CHAS Heritage Week Lecture Showbands in County Carlow Wednesday 21st August 2024 at 8pm in the Seven Oaks Hotel
For Heritage Week Paul Curran of Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society (CHAS) will give a presentation on the Showband era in County Carlow. Through contact with local barber Mick O’Toole; Band leader Tommy Alcock, Mick Horahan, Paddy Delaney, Betty Murphy, and John Payne to name but a few, Paul has gathered up stories and a collection of images that feature many of the local showbands who entertained us in the various venues around the County.
From the early formative years in the late forties right on up to the late seventies, Local orchestras then later showbands such as the PJ Tierney Orchestra, the Carlovians, Mick Foley’s showband, Mick Hennessy and the Creole swing band, The Blue Diamond, The Vikings, the Presidents and many more performed to huge crowds back then in the Ritz, the Crofton Hotel and venues all over the County and beyond, when many relationships formed, ‘some even loving!!’.
Everybody is welcome to come along on the night of Wednesday 21st August 2024 at 8pm in the Seven Oaks Hotel. As always with CHAS events attendance is free and who knows one or two musicians might ‘blow out a tune or two’ on the night.
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